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A Note on Color by VAN HELDEN, Caroline West - 1907

by VAN HELDEN, Caroline West

A Note on Color by VAN HELDEN, Caroline West - 1907

A Note on Color

by VAN HELDEN, Caroline West

  • Used
  • Hardcover
1907. VAN HELDEN, Caroline West. A Note on Color for Teachers of Elementary Schools. 48 pp. Illustrated with 12 chromolithographic plates and one plate with mounted colour samples. 4to., bound in publisher's green cloth-backed tan boards, title printed in black on front cover. Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley, 1907. A manual for teaching colour theory to children, first published in 1902. In chapters on colour scaling, harmony, and studies of the sky, fruits, trees, and flowers, the author stresses "the eye must be opened to see, the mind awakened to note, the hand made able to express" (p. 14). The third plate offers a "Scale of Hues," illustrated with a chart of 90 colour samples. Front hinge reinforced, overall very good. Yale Library Gazette, 1974, p. 22. Birren 632.
  • Bookseller Ursus Books US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Date Published 1907